Porter The Radical Writings of Jack Nusan Porter

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-64469-466-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten

Porter draws from the past to explain the present, walking the precarious bridge between allegiance to Israel and the Jewish people and the universal rights of all people. This collection combines theory, sociology, film studies, literary criticism, post-modern thought, and politics to understand our present situation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porter, Jack Nusan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of ContentsPreface by Shaul MagidIntroduction: The Roots of Jewish RadicalismI. Early Writings1. The Negro, the New Left, and the Hippy
2. The New Left, The Black Man, and Israel
3. Zionism, Racism, and the United Nations: Toward the Prostitution of Language
4. Zionism: Liberation Movement of the Jewish People (by Yosef Tekoah)
5. Zionism is Not Racism (by Morris U. Schappes)
6. Talking Police Blues
7. Student Protest and the Technocratic Society: The Case of ROTCII. Jewish Radicals: Theory8. The Jewish Rebel
9. The Jewishness of Karl Marx
10. Self-Hatred and Self-Esteem
11. Can a Sociologist be a Revolutionist?III. Jewish Radicals: History12. Morris U. Schappes: Jewish Radical Historian—An Interview
13. Martin Buber and the American Jewish Counterculture (with Yizhak Ahren)IV. Jewish Radicals: Praxis/Action14. Jewish Student Activism
15. The Origins of the Jewish Student Movement: A Personal Reflection
16. The Press of Freedom: To Uncle Tom and Other Such Jews (by M. Jay Rosenberg)V. Jewish Radicals on the Right: Meir Kahane and the JDL17. Jewish Conservative Backlash
18. My Secret Days and Nights in the Jewish Defense League
19. Letters: Kahane in New YorkVI. Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism20. Neo-Nazism, Neo-Fascism, and Terrorism: A Global Trend?
21. A Nazi Runs for Mayor: Dangerous Brownshirts or Media Freaks?
22. Neo-Nazis in the USA: An Interview (by Art Jahnke)VII. Radical Zionism23. My Days and Nights in Habonim
24. Israel Needs a Social, Political, and Peaceful Revolution
25. The End of Zionism?VIII. Radical Poetry and Prose26. The Ten Commandments of the Holocaust
27. The Radical Poetry of Jack Nusan Porter: IntroductionMystic—Dedicated to Shlomo Carlebach
The Children
Ode to Amerika: Observations on the “Chicago 7” Trial, 1969-1970
What is a Jewish Radical?
The Jewish PoetIX. Radical Cinema and Media28. Revolution and Rebellion in Film
29. Dalton Trumbo and the Hollywood Ten: Their Legacy
30. The Jew as Bourgeois
31. David Mamet’s Homicide: A Re-evaluation
32. Is Hollywood Leftist and Anti-Frum (Orthodox)? A Response to Screenwriter Robert J. AvrechX. New Directions for Israel33. Ten Days on the West Bank: A New Year’s Hope for Peace
34. The Future of IsraelXI. New Directions in Presidential Politics35. The 2016 American Presidential Race: Where Do the Frontrunners Stand on Foreign Policy Issues?
36. The Hidden Power of Donald and Bernie
37. When Politics Meets HistoryXII. The Future of Jewish Radicalism38. The Impact of Jewish Radicalism
39. Jewish Radicalism: A Classic Revisited 50 Years Later
40. Building a Jewish Radical MovementConclusion: Toward a Post-Modern Radical Jewish CommunityBibliographyAbout the Author

Über Autor(innen)

Porter Jack Nusan:
Jack Nusan Porter was a founder of the Jewish Student Movement in the 1960s and editor of the classic movement anthology Jewish Radicalism. He is an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a former associate of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute. His run for US Congress in the12th District of Massachusetts was the subject of a profile in the April 9, 2012 “Talk of the Town” in The New Yorker. In 2015, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the prediction and eradication of genocide and Holocaust.Jack Nusan Porter founded the Jewish Student Movement in the 1960s and was editor of the classic movement anthology Jewish Radicalism. He is currently an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a former associate of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute. His run for US Congress in the 12th District of Massachusetts was the subject of a profile in an April 2012 issue of “Talk of the Town” in The New Yorker. In 2015, he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the prediction and eradication of genocide.